Theology of Tolerance
According to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, ‘Hinduism’ is devil’s worship. Instead of quoting from their scriptures, let me give the barest of the bare outlines of their fundamental story about…
Read moreReligious Intolerance and Believers
There are two distinct problems: one involving religions (like Christianity, Judaism and Islam) and the other involving the believers. Regarding these three religions: (a) insofar as these religions (Judaism, Christianity…
Read moreDevil worship in ‘Hinduism’
Here goes: that ‘Hindu’ religion is devil’s worship is central, crucial and vital to the religions that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are. ‘Why is that?’, you may ask. It is…
Read moreBelief vs Faith
(a) It appears to me that in these discussions, a very vital issue (if we want to talk about Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and their ‘problems’ with ‘Hinduism’, etc) is…
Read moreVacuity of Intellectual Svaraj
In so far as one sees this article as a beginning of a certain type of enquiry, it is excellent. However, it is not adequate as a formulation of either…
Read moreWestology and its nonsense
What is the logic of my argument? Am I proposing a ‘westology’? Let me briefly explicate my stances, beginning with the last question. 1. If we are not to simply…
Read moreWhy study the Western culture?
Two substantial questions have been raised in response to what I wrote: (a) why do we need to study and understand the Western culture in order to access our own…
Read moreThe Wendy Incident: A View from Europe–SN Balagangadhara
Original [Context: Note though that this piece merely expresses my irritation…] I am from Bangalore, India, but work as a professor in Belgium, Europe. My name is not Batra but…
Read moreCurrent state of Scholarship about India: outlook articles
Jakob de Roover’s Untangling the knot Sufiya Pathan’s No Alternative Jakob’s Disturbing Story Jakob’s How Free are We? Jakob’s The Indian Jews Balagangadhara’s What can India offer?
Read moreTranslation, Interpretation and Culture: On the disingenuity of a comparative theology
[Published: Canadian Social Science 10(5) 39-47, 2014] Check Balu’s paper on comparative theology, and in particular Francis Clooney’s: Translation, interpretration and culture: on the disingenuity of a comparative theology
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